\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout 2.4 million ballots have been returned so far in California\u2019s special election to either approve or reject Proposition 50, according to a data firm used by political campaigns.Previous coverage in the video player aboveA Tuesday release from data firm Political Data Inc. stated that 10% of ballots sent out to California voters have already been returned from Oct. 6 to Oct. 20. Earlier this month, the firm said the voter turnout rate at the time was \u201cclose to recall election numbers,\u201d in a reference to the 2021 vote over whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. According to the early mail-in vote, 12% of Democrats and 12% of Republicans have turned in their ballots. That equates to more than 1.2 million votes out of 10.3 million total ballots mailed for Democrats. For Republicans, that equates to more than 680,000 votes out of 5.8 million total ballots mailed.The turnout for voters classified as independent or other is 7%, equating to more than 505,000 ballots returned out of 6.8 million mailed.Political Data also reports that 51% of the votes came from people ages 65 or older. White voters also represent 69% of the vote so far. California voters on Nov. 4 will decide if the state should temporarily toss its current congressional district map drawn by the state’s independent commission and replace it with a new one that was quickly drawn by Democrats. It\u2019s part of a larger national fight in which Republicans and Democrats are trying to gerrymander their congressional districts to determine which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives halfway through President Donald Trump’s term.The proposed maps target five California Republicans in an attempt to offset the five Republicans Texas is aiming to add.If approved, the maps would be in place for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections. State leaders have said the power to draw maps would return to the independent redistricting commission in 2031.One of the people who works at Political Data Inc., Paul Mitchell, is the owner of a consulting firm that helped to create the congressional redistricting maps for Democrats. He said he is not campaigning for the measure. The last day to register to vote is Oct. 20, though people can also vote on Nov. 3 with Conditional Voter Registration. | RELATED | Everything you need to know about California’s Proposition 50See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channelPHNjcmlwdCB0eXBlPSJ0ZXh0L2phdmFzY3JpcHQiPiFmdW5jdGlvbigpeyJ1c2Ugc3RyaWN0Ijt3aW5kb3cuYWRkRXZlbnRMaXN0ZW5lcigibWVzc2FnZSIsKGZ1bmN0aW9uKGUpe2lmKHZvaWQgMCE9PWUuZGF0YVsiZGF0YXdyYXBwZXItaGVpZ2h0Il0pe3ZhciB0PWRvY3VtZW50LnF1ZXJ5U2VsZWN0b3JBbGwoImlmcmFtZSIpO2Zvcih2YXIgYSBpbiBlLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdKWZvcih2YXIgcj0wO3I8dC5sZW5ndGg7cisrKXtpZih0W3JdLmNvbnRlbnRXaW5kb3c9PT1lLnNvdXJjZSl0W3JdLnN0eWxlLmhlaWdodD1lLmRhdGFbImRhdGF3cmFwcGVyLWhlaWdodCJdW2FdKyJweCJ9fX0pKX0oKTs8L3NjcmlwdD4=\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
About 2.4 million ballots have been returned so far in California\u2019s special election to either approve or reject Proposition 50, according to a data firm used by political campaigns.<\/p>\n
Previous coverage in the video player above<\/p>\n
A Tuesday release from data firm Political Data Inc.<\/a> stated that 10% of ballots sent out to California voters have already been returned from Oct. 6 to Oct. 20. <\/p>\n Earlier this month, the firm said the voter turnout rate at the time was \u201cclose to recall election numbers,\u201d in a reference to the 2021 vote over whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. <\/p>\n \n\tThis content is imported from Twitter. According to the early mail-in vote, 12% of Democrats and 12% of Republicans have turned in their ballots. That equates to more than 1.2 million votes out of 10.3 million total ballots mailed for Democrats. For Republicans, that equates to more than 680,000 votes out of 5.8 million total ballots mailed.<\/p>\n The turnout for voters classified as independent or other is 7%, equating to more than 505,000 ballots returned out of 6.8 million mailed.<\/p>\n Political Data also reports that 51% of the votes came from people ages 65 or older. White voters also represent 69% of the vote so far. <\/p>\n California voters on Nov. 4 will decide if the state should temporarily toss its current congressional district map drawn by the state’s independent commission and replace it with a new one that was quickly drawn by Democrats. It\u2019s part of a larger national fight in which Republicans and Democrats are trying to gerrymander their congressional districts to determine which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives halfway through President Donald Trump’s term.<\/p>\n The proposed maps target five California Republicans in an attempt to offset the five Republicans Texas is aiming to add.<\/p>\n If approved, the maps would be in place for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections. State leaders have said the power to draw maps would return to the independent redistricting commission in 2031.<\/p>\n One of the people who works at Political Data Inc., Paul Mitchell, is the owner of a consulting firm that helped to create the congressional redistricting maps for Democrats. He said he is not campaigning for the measure<\/a>. <\/p>\n The last day to register to vote is Oct. 20, though people can also vote on Nov. 3 with Conditional Voter Registration. <\/p>\n | RELATED | Everything you need to know about California’s Proposition 50<\/a><\/p>\n See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 2.4 million ballots have been returned so far in California\u2019s special election to either approve or reject…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7167,7166,7,9,8,7165,4970,7170,1751,7172,9731,6780,7171,2612,7168,7169,1920,1362,1748,6359,225,4486],"class_list":["post-16293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ballot","tag-ballots","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-california-special-election","tag-california-voter","tag-current-congressional-district-map","tag-democrats","tag-firm","tag-independent-commission","tag-map","tag-nov","tag-oct","tag-people-age","tag-political-data-inc","tag-prop","tag-prop-50","tag-republicans","tag-special-election","tag-state","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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